There are a lot of laughs in this film about a man who uses the few skills he learnt in his unfinished dental degree to exact a kind of revenge on the English for their legacy of colonialism in Australia.
Greg Pickhaver plays the dentist Gordon Fairweather, but the bulk of the film consists of accounts of his practices and deeds told by other characters who encountered him - his patients, his teachers, and his girlfriend's family.
Jacqueline McKenzie plays a naïve young Portsmouth girl with a pronounced lisp, who becomes first his dental nurse and later his fiancé.
The film slumps at various times in the first half, but it picks up in the second half when Fairweather's peculiar psychology and motives are revealed by his teachers, as well as by the UK government officials who launch a belated investigation into his malpractice, causing him to flee to Hong Kong, where the film begins.
Greg Pickhaver plays the dentist Gordon Fairweather, but the bulk of the film consists of accounts of his practices and deeds told by other characters who encountered him - his patients, his teachers, and his girlfriend's family.
Jacqueline McKenzie plays a naïve young Portsmouth girl with a pronounced lisp, who becomes first his dental nurse and later his fiancé.
The film slumps at various times in the first half, but it picks up in the second half when Fairweather's peculiar psychology and motives are revealed by his teachers, as well as by the UK government officials who launch a belated investigation into his malpractice, causing him to flee to Hong Kong, where the film begins.